Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Question 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.
The U. S. department of Education is making efforts to ensure that all students have equal access to a quality education. Today it is 26 the launch of the excellent Educators for All Initiative. The initiative will help states and school districts support great educators for the students who need them most.
“All children are 27 to a high-quality education regardless of their race, zip code or family income. It is 28 important that we provide teachers and principals the support they need to help students reach their full 29 ” U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said. “Despite the excellent work and deep 30 of our nation’s teachers and principals, students in high-poverty, high-minority schools are unfairly treated across our country. We have to do better. local leaders and educators will
31 their own creative solutions, but we must work together to 32 our focus on how to better recruit, support and 33 effective teachers and principals for all students, especially the kids who need them most.”
Today’s announcement is another important step forward in improving access to a quality education, a 34 of president Obama’s year of action. Later today, Secretary Duncan will lead a round table discussion with principals and school teachers from across the country about the 35 of working in high-need schools and how to adopt promising practices for supporting great educators in these schools.
A) announcing | I) distributing |
B) beneficial | J) enhance |
C) challenges | K) entitled |
D) commitment | L) potential |
E) component | M) properly |
F) contests | N) qualified |
G) critically | O) retain |
H) develop |
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答案解析：
26. 根据原文“Today it is... the launch of the Excellent Educators for All Initiative.”，这里表达的是正在“宣布”一项倡议的启动，“announcing”有“宣布”的意思，所以选A。
27. “All children are... to a high quality education...”，孩子们“有权”接受高质量教育，“be entitled to”是固定短语，意为“有资格;有权”，所以选K。
28“It is... important that...”，这里需要一个副词修饰“important”，“critically”(极其;非常)符合语境，强调提供教师和管理人员所需支持的重要性，所以选G。
29.“help students reach their full...”，帮助学生发挥他们的全部“潜力”，“potential”有“潜力;潜能”的意思，所以选L。
30. “Despite the excellent work and deep... of our nation’s teachers and principals...”，“deep commitment”表示“深深的承诺;投入”，这里指教师和管理人员的投入，所以选D。
31.“Local leaders and educators will... their own creative solutions”，地方领导和教育工作者将“制定”他们自己的创造性解决方案，“develop solutions”是常用搭配，所以选H。
32. “but we must work together to... our focus on...”，我们必须共同努力来“增强”我们对如何更好地招聘、支持等方面的工作重点，“enhance”有“提高;增强”的意思，所以选J。
33.“recruit, support and... effective teachers and principals”，招聘、支持并“留住”有效的教师和管理人员，“retain”有“保留;留住”的意思，所以选O。
34. “a... of President Obama’s year of action”，这是奥巴马行动年的一个“组成部分”，“component”有“组成部分”的意思，所以选E。
35. “about the... of working in high need schools”，关于在高需求学校工作的“挑战”，“challenges”有“挑战”的意思，所以选C。
